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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:31:00 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>General Interest Articles</title><subtitle>General Interest Articles</subtitle><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/atom.xml"/><updated>2008-08-10T15:47:38Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Internet’s Inventor Tries To Discover The Perfect Soldier</title><category>science</category><category>Science</category><category>health</category><category>military</category><category>DARPA</category><category>Cold War</category><category>Dwight Eisenhauer</category><category>metabolism</category><category>soldier</category><category>internet</category><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/8/1/internets-inventor-tries-to-discover-the-perfect-soldier.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/8/1/internets-inventor-tries-to-discover-the-perfect-soldier.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-08-01T20:12:33Z</published><updated>2008-08-01T20:12:33Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[The Russian satellite Sputnik was launched into space at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s. In America, the Sputnik satellite was met with complete national security fear.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Amphibian Extinction May First Claim The Frog</title><category>Science-Environment</category><category>science</category><category>environment</category><category>amphibian</category><category>frog</category><category>extinction</category><category>dinosaur</category><category>dodobird</category><category>ark</category><category>year of the frog</category><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/7/18/amphibian-extinction-may-first-claim-the-frog.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/7/18/amphibian-extinction-may-first-claim-the-frog.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-07-18T22:12:40Z</published><updated>2008-07-18T22:12:40Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Many of us grew up watching friendly Kermit the Frog on a television show called Sesame Street. Certainly, we can remember reading the fairy tale of the frog that turns into a handsome prince after receiving a kiss. However, in the Bible, frogs were certainly less endearing when they became a hideous plague that confronted Egypt.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Future Cities Will Move And Change Shape</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/7/1/future-cities-will-move-and-change-shape.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/7/1/future-cities-will-move-and-change-shape.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-07-01T22:47:20Z</published><updated>2008-07-01T22:47:20Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Every day millions of people all over the world go to the office to work at the same location. It is another work day at the same address in the same office building. The structure may be old or it may be new, but the structure does not change. It remains constant. The building faces in the same direction and each window offers the same view to the outside.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>An American Holiday On The Fourth Of July</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/6/7/an-american-holiday-on-the-fourth-of-july.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/6/7/an-american-holiday-on-the-fourth-of-july.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-06-07T00:13:44Z</published><updated>2008-06-07T00:13:44Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[John Adams thought that America's birthday would be celebrated every year on the 2nd of July. Adams thought that the vote by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776 to secede from British rule would become the date that Americans would honor throughout the ages. Ultimately, he would be proven wrong on his prediction of the day each year that America celebrates its independence.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Sinatra's Stamp And Fred Astaire's Vacuum</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/5/14/sinatras-stamp-and-fred-astaires-vacuum.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/5/14/sinatras-stamp-and-fred-astaires-vacuum.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-05-14T00:41:09Z</published><updated>2008-05-14T00:41:09Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[It has been a decade (May 14, 1998) since his death but the music of Frank Sinatra is still everywhere. New York, New York” can be heard at every Yankee baseball game. Evening dining at any upscale restaurant usually features a musical rendition of a famous Frank Sinatra tune. His movies can still be seen on cable television and on DVD.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Time Magazine's Profitable Use Of Climate Change</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/5/2/time-magazines-profitable-use-of-climate-change.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/5/2/time-magazines-profitable-use-of-climate-change.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-05-02T17:48:11Z</published><updated>2008-05-02T17:48:11Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[On April 3, 2006, the cover of Time Magazine read "Be Worried, Be Very Worried" introducing an article on Global Warming. One year later the cover of Time Magazine announced its "Global Warming Survival Guide.” A Time Global Warming cover story in 2001 showed an egg in a frying pan. Time Magazine’s Global Warming cover stories even date back nearly two decades]]></summary></entry><entry><title>The French Spiderman's Climb To The Top</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/4/18/the-french-spidermans-climb-to-the-top.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/4/18/the-french-spidermans-climb-to-the-top.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-04-18T23:29:23Z</published><updated>2008-04-18T23:29:23Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[He is the world's most accomplished urban climber. He has scaled more than 85 buildings around the globe; including, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His long list of urban climbing conquests also includes the Taipei 101 in Taiwan, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Empire State Building in New York, and most of the world's tallest skyscrapers, bridges, and buildings.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>A New Era Of Space Travel Is On The Horizon</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/4/5/a-new-era-of-space-travel-is-on-the-horizon.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/4/5/a-new-era-of-space-travel-is-on-the-horizon.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-04-05T00:01:54Z</published><updated>2008-04-05T00:01:54Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Data from public opinion polls indicate that nearly fifty million people would like to visit space. In fact as many as two million people each year would take the journey beyond the outer limits of Earth’s gravity. The public's fascination with space travel means the potential development of a space travel tourism industry with revenues that could amount to $10 billion or more every year.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>RFID Clothing Tags Would Not Be Private Labels</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/3/17/rfid-clothing-tags-would-not-be-private-labels.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/3/17/rfid-clothing-tags-would-not-be-private-labels.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-03-17T23:47:15Z</published><updated>2008-03-17T23:47:15Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[Imagine a time in the near future when you enter a mall for a day of shopping. As you enter that mall, a tiny RFID scanner near the entrance captures the pulse from the hidden RFID tag sewn into the jacket that you are wearing.  The information captured by that scanner is sent to a transactional database and within seconds your complete identity, and the location and date that you purchased that jacket, is captured]]></summary></entry><entry><title>A Tough Call On The Inventor Of The Telephone</title><id>http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/3/5/a-tough-call-on-the-inventor-of-the-telephone.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.eworldvu.com/general-interest/2008/3/5/a-tough-call-on-the-inventor-of-the-telephone.html"/><author><name>James Smith</name></author><published>2008-03-05T00:49:43Z</published><updated>2008-03-05T00:49:43Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[The history books will tell you that Alexander Graham Bell of Scotland invented the telephone. Alexander Bell won a patent dispute which would lead to the most valuable patent ever issued, the telephone. The patent on the telephone and the subsequent success of the device would lead to the creation of the world's largest monopoly, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.]]></summary></entry></feed>